Carolyn Howard-Johnson Speaks on her Writers' Life October 11, 2004

A special Award-winning author Carolyn Howard-Johnson will be sharing how the barriers of time, place and culture can be overcome at the Monrovia City Library on Monday, October 11th, from 10:30 am to 11:30 am.

Sponsored by the Monrovia League to benefit local charities, the series of presentations by authors is $25 for the series or $5. at the door. However, no one unable to pay will be turned away. Howard-Johnson was asked to speak about her own life so the topic will turn on the destructive quality of subtle prejudice, some women's issues, the joy of writing and more.

The Monrovia library is in the library park at 321 So. Myrtle Ave, Monrovia.
Carolyn Howard-Johnson's first novel, This is the Place, has won eight awards. Her second book, Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered, is creative nonfiction; it has won three. Her fiction, nonfiction and poems have appeared in national magazines, anthologies and review journals. She speaks on Utah's culture, tolerance and other subjects and has appeared on TV and hundreds of radio stations nationwide. She loves to travel and has studied writing at Cambridge University in the United Kingdom, UK: Herzen University in St. Petersburg, RU; and Charles University in Prague. Her website is: http://carolynhowardjohnson.com.

Carolyn is an instructor for UCLA Extension's Writers' Program. She will be teaching a course called ?Savvy Marketing for New Authors? this fall and her next book, THE FRUGAL BOOK PROMOTER: HOW TO DO WHAT YOUR PUBLISHER WON'T, will be released in this month.

More information is available from Carol at ckampe@ci.monrovia.ca.us. Learn more about the author at http://carolynhowardjohnson.com.
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(Photos, book cover art and a full media kit are available electronically or by post upon request.)